hearing for white house chief counter-terrorism advisor john brennan to become the next director of the cia. he is seen as the lead component of drone strikes overseas that have in more than one instance killed americans. there was a growing bipartisan call that gives the white house the authority to carry out those strikes. the president just decided to comply. even so the republican veteran of the battles between congress and the white house says the drone policy goes too far. >>> the president is taking all of this authority to himself. he is the judge, the jury and the executioner that is absolutely 100 percent wrong. >> brennan today will still no doubt face a barrage of questions over those strikes including whether it is better to simply kill terrorists remotely rather than capture and interrogate them. the white house stand by what that is become a far more aggressive program to remotely conduct the war on terror. >> i think it's fair to say that far fewer civilians lose their lives in an effort to go after senior leadership in al qaeda along the lines we are discussing as opposed t